A true and exact description of the most celebrated East-India coasts of Malabar and Coromandel ; as also of the isle of Ceylon : with all the adjacent kingdoms, principalities, provinces, cities, chief harbours, structures, pagan temples, products, and living creatures : the manners, habits, oeconomics and ceremonies of the inhabitants. As likewife the most remarkable warlike exploits, sieges, sea and field-engagements betwixt the Portuguese and Dutch ; with their traffick and commerce. The whole adorned with new maps and draughts of the chief cities, forts, habits, living creatures, fruits, ... By Philipp Baldaeus, minister of the word of God in Ceylon. Translated from the High Dutch, printed at Amsterdam 1672.